Welcome to the heart of the Tarot Interviews project! Whether we are drawing cards over a Riverside call to the other side of the world or pulling them via a messaging app, our three-card, three-question format has conjured up incredible conversations with a diverse range of writers, artists, musicians, and cultural figures.

This page is a living index celebrating everyone who has shared their time, energy, and sense of wonder with us. Below, you will find the podcast guests and written interviewees who make it all happen.

At a Glance

• Tarot Interviews (Podcast): 40 featured guests and contributors
• Tarot DMs (Written): 32 written interview guests
• Our Community Total: 72 creative voices across both projects

Familiar Faces We have had the absolute pleasure of featuring incredible talents, including Joanne Harris, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Lauren Beukes, Carrie Jenkins, Julian Simpson, Sacha Coward, Lucy Rose, Alice Slater, Amy Blackthorn, Kit Whitfield, Beans on Toast, Jess Silk, Amelia Coburn, and GANS.

Tarot Interviews Guests and Contributors

Season One

Lauren Beukes

Name: Lauren Beukes
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 1 April 2025
Appearance type: Podcast interview
Description: Lauren Beukes is a South African author, screenwriter and journalist. Her books include Zoo City, The Shining Girls, Broken Monsters, Afterland and Bridge.
Known for: Zoo City, The Shining Girls, Broken Monsters, Afterland, Bridge
Also relevant: author, screenwriter, journalist, speculative fiction, crime fiction, South African writer, Tarot Interviews

Amy Blackthorn

Name: Amy Blackthorn
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 14 April 2025
Appearance type: Podcast interview
Description: Amy Blackthorn is an author, herbalist and educator. Her books include Blackthorn’s Botanical Magic, Blackthorn’s Botanical Brews, Blackthorn’s Protection Magic, Blackthorn’s Botanical Wellness and Sacred Smoke.
Known for: Blackthorn’s Botanical Magic, Blackthorn’s Botanical Brews, Blackthorn’s Protection Magic, Sacred Smoke
Also relevant: author, herbalist, botanical magic, aromatherapy, protection magic, occult books, Tarot Interviews

Carrie Jenkins

Name: Carrie Jenkins
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 15 April 2025
Appearance type: Podcast interview
Description: Carrie Jenkins is a philosopher, poet and author. Her work includes What Love Is, And What It Could Be, Sad Love and Nonmonogamy and Happiness.
Known for: What Love Is, And What It Could Be; Sad Love; Nonmonogamy and Happiness
Also relevant: philosopher, poet, author, philosophy of love, metaphysics, relationships, Tarot Interviews

Chase McPherson

Name: Chase McPherson
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 22 April 2025
Appearance type: Podcast interview
Description: Chase McPherson is a writer of queer speculative fiction with gothic and horror elements. Their fiction includes vampires, grief, identity and transformation.
Known for: queer speculative fiction, gothic fiction, vampire fiction
Also relevant: writer, queer fiction, speculative fiction, gothic fiction, horror fiction, Tarot Interviews

Lindz McLeod

Name: Lindz McLeod
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 29 April 2025
Appearance type: Podcast interview
Description: Lindz McLeod is a Scottish writer whose work includes speculative fiction, literary fiction, horror, romance, short stories and essays.
Known for: speculative fiction, short fiction, literary romance, horror writing
Also relevant: Scottish author, fiction writer, speculative fiction, horror, romance, Tarot Interviews

Kate Gray

Name: Kate Gray
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 6 May 2025
Appearance type: Podcast interview
Description: Kate Gray is a games writer, journalist and narrative designer. Her work includes video game writing, interactive storytelling, games journalism and narrative design.
Known for: games writing, narrative design, interactive fiction, games journalism
Also relevant: games writer, narrative designer, video game writing, interactive storytelling, Tarot Interviews

Sadriana Zea

Name: Sadriana Zea
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 13 May 2025
Appearance type: Podcast interview
Description: Sadriana Zea is a disabled writer, artist and Twitch streamer. Her creative work includes fantasy writing, traditional media art and online streaming.
Known for: fantasy writing, traditional media art, streaming
Also relevant: disabled writer, artist, Twitch streamer, fantasy, creative practice, Tarot Interviews

Julian Simpson

Name: Julian Simpson
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 20 May 2025
Appearance type: Podcast interview
Description: Julian Simpson is a writer, director and audio dramatist. His work includes The Lovecraft Investigations, Mythos, Who Is Aldrich Kemp? and the Pleasant Green universe.
Known for: The Lovecraft Investigations, Mythos, Who Is Aldrich Kemp?, Pleasant Green
Also relevant: writer, director, audio drama, mystery fiction, BBC audio drama, Tarot Interviews

Clelia McElroy

Name: Clelia McElroy
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 27 May 2025
Appearance type: Podcast interview
Description: Clelia McElroy is a film researcher and founder of Monstrous Flesh, a horror project centring women and nonbinary people in horror.
Known for: Monstrous Flesh, horror film research, women in horror
Also relevant: film researcher, horror film, women in horror, nonbinary horror, feminist horror, Tarot Interviews

Julia Bird

Name: Julia Bird
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 3 June 2025
Appearance type: Podcast interview
Description: Julia Bird is a poet. Her books include Hannah and the Monk and Twenty-Four Seven Blossom.
Known for: Hannah and the Monk, Twenty-Four Seven Blossom
Also relevant: poet, poetry, British poetry, contemporary poetry, Tarot Interviews

Kay Purcell

Name: Kay Purcell
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 10 June 2025
Appearance type: Podcast interview
Description: Kay Purcell is a performer, storyteller and tabletop roleplaying creator. They are connected with Chaotic Wholesome Presents and live-play roleplaying work.
Known for: Chaotic Wholesome Presents, tabletop roleplaying, live-play performance
Also relevant: performer, storyteller, TTRPG, tabletop roleplaying games, live-play, Tarot Interviews

Chloe De Lullington

Name: Chloe De Lullington
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 17 June 2025
Appearance type: Podcast interview
Description: Chloe De Lullington is a writer. Her debut novel is Cacoethes, a queer coming-of-age novel.
Known for: Cacoethes
Also relevant: writer, novelist, queer fiction, coming-of-age fiction, Tarot Interviews

Cassandra Snow

Name: Cassandra Snow
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 24 June 2025
Appearance type: Podcast interview
Description: Cassandra Snow is a tarot author, professional tarot reader, performer and theatre artist. Their work includes writing, editing and teaching around queer tarot.
Known for: tarot writing, queer tarot, Tarot in Other Words
Also relevant: tarot author, tarot reader, theatre artist, divination, queer tarot, Tarot Interviews

Beth Sage Phung

Name: Beth Sage Phung
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 1 July 2025
Appearance type: Podcast interview
Description: Beth Sage Phung, also known as Sage Fung, is a writer and voice actor. Their work includes poetry, audio drama performance and writing about identity and relationships.
Known for: poetry, voice acting, audio drama
Also relevant: Beth Sage Phung, Sage Fung, writer, voice actor, poet, Tarot Interviews

Nova and Mali

Name: Nova and Mali
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 15 July 2025
Appearance type: Podcast interview
Description: Nova and Mali are artists and creative collaborators behind Star Crossed: A Queer Tarot, a tarot project celebrating LGBTQ+ identities and disability representation.
Known for: Star Crossed: A Queer Tarot
Also relevant: queer tarot, LGBTQ+ art, disability representation, tarot deck, Tarot Interviews

Kit Whitfield

Name: Kit Whitfield
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 22 July 2025
Appearance type: Podcast interview
Description: Kit Whitfield is an English novelist and essayist. Her books include Bareback, Benighted, In the Heart of Hidden Things and All the Hollow of the Sky.
Known for: Bareback, Benighted, In the Heart of Hidden Things, All the Hollow of the Sky
Also relevant: novelist, essayist, speculative fiction, horror essays, Gyrford, Tarot Interviews

Carrie Harris

Name: Carrie Harris
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 29 July 2025
Appearance type: Podcast interview
Description: Carrie Harris is a novelist, comics writer, games writer, editor, ghostwriter and writing teacher. Her work includes original fiction and licensed writing for Marvel, Warhammer 40,000, Miraculous Ladybug, Arkham Horror and World of Darkness.
Known for: Marvel, Warhammer 40,000, Miraculous Ladybug, Arkham Horror, World of Darkness
Also relevant: novelist, comics writer, games writer, licensed fiction, horror fiction, Tarot Interviews

Season Two

Beans on Toast

Name: Beans on Toast
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 10 June 2026
Appearance type: Festival performer
Description: Beans on Toast is the stage name of English singer-songwriter Jay McAllister. His work includes folk, protest songs, festival performances and independent music releases.
Known for: folk music, protest songs, live performance, independent music
Also relevant: Beans on Toast, Jay McAllister, singer-songwriter, Bearded Theory Festival, Tarot Interviews

Jess Silk

Name: Jess Silk
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 10 June 2026
Appearance type: Festival performer
Description: Jess Silk is a singer-songwriter and live performer associated with acoustic, folk and protest music.
Known for: acoustic music, folk music, protest music
Also relevant: Jess Silk, singer-songwriter, musician, Bearded Theory Festival, Tarot Interviews

Amelia Coburn

Name: Amelia Coburn
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 10 June 2026
Appearance type: Festival performer
Description: Amelia Coburn is a singer-songwriter and musician from Middlesbrough. Her work includes dark, theatrical and folk-influenced songwriting.
Known for: songwriting, folk-influenced music, live performance
Also relevant: Amelia Coburn, singer-songwriter, Middlesbrough musician, Bearded Theory Festival, Tarot Interviews

GANS

Name: GANS
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 10 June 2026
Appearance type: Festival performer
Description: GANS are a British band. Their work includes live performance, recorded music and festival appearances.
Known for: live music, recorded music, festival appearances
Also relevant: GANS, British band, live music, Bearded Theory Festival, Tarot Interviews

Aaron from the Bearded Theory fire crew

Name: Aaron from the Bearded Theory fire crew
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 10 June 2026
Appearance type: Festival crew
Description: Aaron appeared as part of the Bearded Theory Festival fire crew. Fire crew members support festival safety, site operations and emergency response.
Known for: Bearded Theory Festival fire crew
Also relevant: festival crew, festival safety, fire crew, site operations, Bearded Theory Festival, Tarot Interviews

Lou from To Dye For

Name: Lou from To Dye For
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 10 June 2026
Appearance type: Festival trader
Description: Lou is connected with To Dye For, a festival trading business associated with tie-dye clothing and handmade festival goods.
Known for: To Dye For, tie-dye clothing, festival trading
Also relevant: festival trader, handmade clothing, tie-dye, Bearded Theory Festival, Tarot Interviews

Helen from Truly Crumptious

Name: Helen from Truly Crumptious
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 10 June 2026
Appearance type: Festival trader
Description: Helen is connected with Truly Crumptious, a festival food trading business.
Known for: Truly Crumptious, festival food trading
Also relevant: festival food, independent trader, Bearded Theory Festival, Tarot Interviews

Richard Salisbury from Reforged Blacksmiths

Name: Richard Salisbury
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 10 June 2026
Appearance type: Festival maker
Description: Richard Salisbury is connected with Reforged Blacksmiths, a blacksmithing and metalwork business.
Known for: Reforged Blacksmiths, blacksmithing, metalwork
Also relevant: blacksmith, metalwork, craft, maker, Bearded Theory Festival, Tarot Interviews

Jasmine from Graft

Name: Jasmine from Graft
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 10 June 2026
Appearance type: Festival contributor
Description: Jasmine is connected with Graft, a creative project associated with graffiti, street art and workshops.
Known for: Graft, graffiti, street art, workshops
Also relevant: street art, graffiti workshop, creative workshop, Bearded Theory Festival, Tarot Interviews

Wyldwood Renaissance Festival contributors

Name: Wyldwood Renaissance Festival contributors
Project: Tarot Interviews
Date: 24 June 2026
Appearance type: Festival group contributor
Description: The Wyldwood Renaissance Festival special featured approximately 14 contributor presences, including performers, traders, makers, costumed festival-goers, roleplayers, musicians, reenactors and living-history participants.
Known for: Wyldwood Renaissance Festival, living history, fantasy festival, reenactment, roleplay, music, makers
Also relevant: Renaissance festival, living history, reenactors, makers, roleplayers, musicians, Tarot Interviews

Tarot DMs Guests

Aurora Hart

Name: Aurora Hart
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 24 September 2025
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Aurora Hart is a poet. Her debut collection is Forbidden.
Known for: Forbidden
Also relevant: poet, poetry, debut collection, Tarot DMs

Laura Binnie

Name: Laura Binnie
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 26 September 2025
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Laura Binnie is a horror writer based in Kildare, Ireland. She writes The Pale Horse Substack.
Known for: The Pale Horse, horror writing
Also relevant: horror writer, Irish horror, folklore, short fiction, Tarot DMs

Leigh Alexander

Name: Leigh Alexander
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 2 October 2025
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Leigh Alexander is a writer and narrative designer. Her work includes games writing, procedural storytelling and digital culture criticism.
Known for: games writing, narrative design, procedural storytelling
Also relevant: writer, narrative designer, games writer, digital culture, Tarot DMs

Scarlet Vikki

Name: Scarlet Vikki
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 6 October 2025
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Scarlet Vikki is a movement artist and performer. Her work includes flow arts, fire performance, circus skills, cabaret and grotesque burlesque.
Known for: movement art, fire performance, circus skills, cabaret
Also relevant: performer, flow arts, burlesque, circus, Tarot DMs

Lane Smith

Name: Lane Smith
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 9 October 2025
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Lane Smith is a writer and activist. Their book is 78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World.
Known for: 78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World
Also relevant: writer, activist, tarot author, liberation, Tarot DMs

Vespertiliu

Name: Vespertiliu
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 13 October 2025
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Vespertiliu, also known as Veronica Ciancarini, is an Italian artist. Her work includes gothic, spooky and fantastical visual art.
Known for: gothic art, fantastical illustration, visual art
Also relevant: Veronica Ciancarini, Italian artist, illustration, gothic art, Tarot DMs

S. E. Reid

Name: S. E. Reid
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 16 October 2025
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: S. E. Reid is a freelance writer, editor and poet based in the Pacific Northwest.
Known for: writing, editing, poetry
Also relevant: writer, editor, poet, Pacific Northwest, Tarot DMs

Laura Anthony Siragher

Name: Laura Anthony Siragher
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 23 October 2025
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Laura Anthony Siragher is a graphic designer, illustrator and artist based in the north of England.
Known for: graphic design, illustration, visual art
Also relevant: graphic designer, illustrator, artist, northern England, Tarot DMs

Sacha Coward

Name: Sacha Coward
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 30 October 2025
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Sacha Coward is a writer, historian, researcher, public speaker and heritage professional. His work includes queer history, folklore, mythology, museums and public heritage.
Known for: Queer as Folklore, queer history, folklore, museum work
Also relevant: writer, historian, researcher, heritage, museums, mythology, Tarot DMs

Frank Duffy

Name: Frank Duffy
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 3 November 2025
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Frank Duffy is a non-binary painter and printmaker from Cardiff, based in rural West Wales. Their work includes queer art, magic, liminal imagery and a linoprinted tarot deck.
Known for: painting, printmaking, queer art, linoprinted tarot
Also relevant: Welsh artist, painter, printmaker, linocut, tarot deck, Tarot DMs

Amy S. Kaufman

Name: Amy S. Kaufman
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 6 November 2025
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Amy S. Kaufman is a writer and historian. Her work includes medieval literature, public history and fiction connected with Robin Hood and historical storytelling.
Known for: The Traitor of Sherwood Forest, The Devil’s Historians, medieval literature
Also relevant: writer, historian, Robin Hood, medievalism, public history, Tarot DMs

Treasa McCabe

Name: Treasa McCabe
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 9 November 2025
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Treasa McCabe is a design lead, tech lead and lead producer at Spooky Doorway. The studio’s work includes The Darkside Detective and The Séance of Blake Manor.
Known for: Spooky Doorway, The Darkside Detective, The Séance of Blake Manor
Also relevant: game design, game production, interactive fiction, narrative games, Tarot DMs

Stephanie Inagaki

Name: Stephanie Inagaki
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 13 November 2025
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Stephanie Inagaki is a multidisciplinary fine artist and jewellery designer. Her work draws on fairytales, folklore, Japanese heritage, anthropomorphic figures, masks and transformation.
Known for: fine art, jewellery design, folklore, masks
Also relevant: artist, jewellery designer, Japanese folklore, transformation, Tarot DMs

Scott Leeds

Name: Scott Leeds
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 17 November 2025
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Scott Leeds is a writer from the Pacific Northwest. His novel Schrader’s Chord is a horror story involving vinyl records and the dead.
Known for: Schrader’s Chord
Also relevant: horror writer, supernatural fiction, vinyl records, Pacific Northwest, Tarot DMs

Cay Macres

Name: Cay Macres
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 20 November 2025
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Cay Macres is a writer and narrative designer based in California. Their work includes the cosy fantasy interactive novel Witch’s Brew: Love and Lattes.
Known for: Witch’s Brew: Love and Lattes
Also relevant: writer, narrative designer, cosy fantasy, interactive fiction, Tarot DMs

C. B. Lee

Name: C. B. Lee
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 26 November 2025
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: C. B. Lee is a New York Times bestselling author of young adult and middle-grade fiction. Her books include Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe, A Clash of Steel and the Sidekick Squad series.
Known for: Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe, A Clash of Steel, Sidekick Squad
Also relevant: author, YA fiction, middle-grade fiction, queer fiction, speculative fiction, Tarot DMs

Helen Nesburg

Name: Helen Nesburg
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 7 December 2025
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Helen Nesburg is an illustrator, writer and muralist based in Portland. Her work includes illustration, murals and middle-grade fantasy.
Known for: illustration, murals, middle-grade fantasy
Also relevant: illustrator, writer, muralist, Portland, Tarot DMs

Lara

Name: Lara
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 12 December 2025
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Lara is an anatomical pathology technologist with more than ten years of experience in NHS mortuaries.
Known for: anatomical pathology technology, mortuary work
Also relevant: anatomical pathology technologist, NHS, death care, mortuary, Tarot DMs

Jennifer McGrew

Name: Jennifer McGrew
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 18 December 2025
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Jennifer McGrew is a costume and production designer. Her work includes events, attractions, stage, commercials, film, television, fashion, technology, websites and literary projects.
Known for: costume design, production design, fabrication
Also relevant: costume designer, production designer, stage, film, television, Tarot DMs

Paulina Stevens and Jezmina Von Thiele

Name: Paulina Stevens and Jezmina Von Thiele
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 23 December 2025
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Paulina Stevens and Jezmina Von Thiele are authors, podcasters and spiritual practitioners. Their work includes Romani fortune telling, divination, storytelling, ritual and cultural history.
Known for: Secrets of Romani Fortune Telling, Romanistan
Also relevant: authors, podcasters, divination, Romani fortune telling, spiritual practice, Tarot DMs

Bridie Squires

Name: Bridie Squires
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 4 February 2026
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Bridie Squires is a writer, performance artist and producer from Nottingham. She is the founder and director of GOBS Collective.
Known for: GOBS Collective, Duck on Bike, Casino Zero, Chaos Casino
Also relevant: Nottingham poet, playwright, performance artist, producer, GOBS Collective, Tarot DMs

Lucy Rose

Name: Lucy Rose
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 12 February 2026
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Lucy Rose is a writer and filmmaker. Her work includes fiction, nonfiction, short films and the novel The Lamb.
Known for: The Lamb
Also relevant: writer, filmmaker, horror fiction, author, Tarot DMs

CJ DeBarra

Name: CJ DeBarra
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 21 February 2026
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: CJ DeBarra is a journalist, author and historian from Cork, based in Nottingham. Their work includes Neuroqueer, Queer Nottingham, oral history and archival research.
Known for: Neuroqueer, Queer Nottingham
Also relevant: journalist, author, historian, oral history, archives, Nottingham, Tarot DMs

Joanne Harris

Name: Joanne Harris
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 7 March 2026
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Joanne Harris is an internationally bestselling author. Her books include Chocolat, The Gospel of Loki, Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange and Vianne.
Known for: Chocolat, Vianne, The Gospel of Loki, Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange
Also relevant: author, bestselling fiction, novels, myth, food writing, Tarot DMs

Amy Twigg

Name: Amy Twigg
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 29 March 2026
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Amy Twigg is a writer from Kent. Her debut novel is Spoilt Creatures.
Known for: Spoilt Creatures
Also relevant: writer, novelist, debut fiction, literary fiction, Tarot DMs

Marie Waller

Name: Marie Waller
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 6 April 2026
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Marie Waller is a freelance writer, editor and proofreader based in Northampton. Her work includes supernatural fiction and the Haunted UK Podcast.
Known for: Ghost of a Smile, Haunted UK Podcast
Also relevant: writer, editor, proofreader, supernatural fiction, ghosts, Tarot DMs

Emma van Straaten

Name: Emma van Straaten
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 12 April 2026
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Emma van Straaten is a writer of British-Mauritian heritage. Her debut novel is This Immaculate Body, published in the United States as Creep.
Known for: This Immaculate Body, Creep
Also relevant: writer, British-Mauritian author, literary fiction, debut novel, Tarot DMs

Alice Slater

Name: Alice Slater
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 16 April 2026
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Alice Slater is a London-based writer. Her books include Death of a Bookseller and Let the Bad Times Roll.
Known for: Death of a Bookseller, Let the Bad Times Roll
Also relevant: writer, crime fiction, bookselling, novels, Tarot DMs

Elspeth Wilson

Name: Elspeth Wilson
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 25 April 2026
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Elspeth Wilson is a writer and poet. Her books include the novel These Mortal Bodies and the poetry pamphlet Too Hot to Sleep.
Known for: These Mortal Bodies, Too Hot to Sleep
Also relevant: writer, poet, debut novel, poetry, Tarot DMs

Adrian Tchaikovsky

Name: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 4 May 2026
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Adrian Tchaikovsky is a British science fiction and fantasy author. His books include Children of Time, The Final Architecture series, Dogs of War, Alien Clay, Service Model, Shroud and the Shadows of the Apt series.
Known for: Children of Time, The Final Architecture, Dogs of War, Alien Clay, Service Model, Shroud, Shadows of the Apt
Also relevant: science fiction, fantasy author, speculative fiction, worldbuilding, Tarot DMs

The Dream Eaters

Name: The Dream Eaters
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 27 May 2026
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: The Dream Eaters are an art-pop duo. Their work includes music, video, performance and dream-pop.
Known for: We Are A Curse, Pagan Love, The Dream Eating Freakshow, Year End Report
Also relevant: art-pop duo, dream-pop, music, video art, performance, Tarot DMs

Callie Kazumi

Name: Callie Kazumi
Project: Tarot DMs
Date: 30 June 2026
Appearance type: Written interview
Description: Callie Kazumi is a British-Japanese writer of psychological thrillers. Her books include Cuckoo and Greedy.
Known for: Cuckoo, Greedy
Also relevant: British-Japanese writer, psychological thriller, crime fiction, author, Tarot DMs

FAQ

How many people have joined the project so far? We have welcomed approximately 72 amazing guests and contributors across both Tarot Interviews and Tarot DMs.

What is the difference between Tarot Interviews and Tarot DMs? It all comes down to the medium:

• Tarot Interviews: Our audio podcast where we pull cards and chat on air.
• Tarot DMs: Our written interview series, adapting a similar three-card structure but entirely through messaging apps for a cosier conversation.

Do you include festival contributors in the directory? Absolutely. Our festival specials are a huge part of what we do. We list all our named artists, artisan traders, makers, crew members, performers, and festival-goers as contributors to celebrate the community outside the standard studio setting.

Why is the total number of guests listed as "approximate"? Festivals are wonderfully chaotic! A single festival episode might feature one-on-one interviews alongside quick chats with traders, crew members, photographed contributors, and grouped festival voices. We use a close estimate for our total guest count.

Where can I dive into the series?

• Listen: You can stream Tarot Interviews on all major podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

• Read: You can explore the Tarot DMs written series over at tarotdms.com

Last updated: 6 July 2026.